CONFERENCE KEYNOTE CONVERSATIONS
(TICKETS INCLUDED IN FULL CONFERENCE REGISTRATION)
Opening Plenary: Kindred Literary Discussion
Wednesday, August 7 | 4:30 – 6:00 P.M.
Featured Panelists include:
Julian Chambliss
Premiere Scholar on Generative Digital History, Comics, Cities & Culture
Ytasha Womack
Leading Afrofuturism Expert, Author & Filmmaker
John Jennings
Kindred Graphic Novelist and Scholar
Preserving Black Joy through Travel, Recreation and Exploration
Film Screening & Panel Discussion
Thursday, August 8 | 11:45 A.M – 1:45 P.M
Featured Panelists include:
Yoruba Richen, Award-Winning Director, Filmmaker & Scholar
Candacy Taylor, Greenbook Historian & Cultural Documentarian
Brent Leggs, Executive Director, African American Cultural Heritage Action Fund
Marquette Folley, Content Director, Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibit Service
Moderator: Dr. Damion Thomas, Green Book Documentary Content Reviewer and Curator of Sports, National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC)
Moderated by: Patrisse Cullors
(Black Lives Matter Co-Founder and Author of When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir)
